Who will win the SAP Open

Raonic

Isner

Querrey

Other

No thread for this yet or did I miss it? Looks like Hewitt is about to start against Kavcic. It would be nice to see Hewitt have at least one really good tournament this year. This seems like one where he's got a decent shot.

will the event be played in another location next year, or simply erased from the calendar ?

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'Sharks Sports & Entertainment also own a 500-level tournament in Memphis that also has a women’s event with it. When a group from Brazil made a lucrative offer to buy that tournament, the Sharks decided to move the San Jose event to Memphis because of better logistics.'

'Sharks Sports & Entertainment also own a 500-level tournament in Memphis that also has a women’s event with it. When a group from Brazil made a lucrative offer to buy that tournament, the Sharks decided to move the San Jose event to Memphis because of better logistics.'

'Sharks Sports & Entertainment also own a 500-level tournament in Memphis that also has a women’s event with it. When a group from Brazil made a lucrative offer to buy that tournament, the Sharks decided to move the San Jose event to Memphis because of better logistics.'

Yeah, as Moose Malloy mentioned in his post. Essentially, San Jose 250 moves to Memphis as a 250. The current combined men's/women's Memphis tourney moves to Rio where it will be a 500 tourney for the men. That's the info I got from articles I read a few months back.

Granted, that was the final round of qualifying at 9:30am on a Monday. Last year was the first year that qualifying was scheduled during the week but I think they also reduced the draw from 32 to 28 but still. No one wants to pay to see qualifying matches.

'Sharks Sports & Entertainment also own a 500-level tournament in Memphis that also has a women’s event with it. When a group from Brazil made a lucrative offer to buy that tournament, the Sharks decided to move the San Jose event to Memphis because of better logistics.'

Yeah, as Moose Malloy mentioned in his post. Essentially, San Jose 250 moves to Memphis as a 250. The current combined men's/women's Memphis tourney moves to Rio where it will be a 500 tourney for the men. That's the info I got from articles I read a few months back.

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ok, thx guys for the info.

will be interesting to see how they schedule all this: if they don't change anything there could be 2 straight tournaments played in brazil...

and what about the surface ? sao paulo is an indoor clay event... what would be rio played on ?
(anything to do with olympic facilities, by the way ?)

and what about the surface ? sao paulo is an indoor clay event... what would be rio played on ?
(anything to do with olympic facilities, by the way ?)

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Rio will be clay and Acapulco will change to hard court to preserve the surfaces. Delray and Memphis will both be moved a week back to allow Acapulco to be become the finale of this pre-IW/Miami NA hardcourt swing. Rio takes Acapulco's place as the 500 event of the Golden Swing.

Rio will be clay and Acapulco will change to hard court to preserve the surfaces. Delray and Memphis will both be moved a week back to allow Acapulco to be become the finale of this pre-IW/Miami NA hardcourt swing. Rio takes Acapulco's place as the 500 event of the Golden Swing.

i think tournaments like these should stream online on their main site. the more people tune in, talk about the tournament, remember the odd trick shot or upset the more likely it is for people to actually want to see it live.
it will also help give the sponsors more bang for their buck.

OR... change the surface to grass so it isn't just another, also ran, 250 event!

Raonic/Isitmin was streamed on the 3 different sites I looked at (2 usual streaming sites and an English betting site) What a joke that streaming was, Compressed, blurry, erratic sound...unwatchable. Then I went to the SAP site. Aha I thought. Now I can see it. Yes, clear and good sound for 10 minutes, Then it became jerky, the sound was in and out.. what a joke. They should have shown nothing rather than this ...what a mess....GO Milos....he overwhelmed Istimin as the match went on. Lots of net work and the ground strokes were pretty good as was his serve.